2020年广西成考专升本英语模拟试卷8

一、语音知识(本题共1-5小题，每题1分，满分5分。)

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Ⅰ. Phonetics (5 points)

Directions: In each of the following groups of words, there are four underlined letters or letter combinations marked A, B, C and D. Compare the underlined parts and identify the one that is different from the others in pronunciation. Mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.

1. A. organize

B. bargain

C. regular

D. charge

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2. A. ruler

B. rubber

C. butter

D. nut

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3. A. sadness

B. careless

C. less

D. kindness

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4. A. dark

B. arm

C. warm

D. harbour

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5. A. nineteenth

B. thank

C. southern

D. fifth

二、词汇与语法知识(本题共6-20小题，每题1分，满分15分。)

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Ⅱ. Vocabulary and Structure (15 points)

Directions: There are 15 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose one answer that best completes the sentence and blacken the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.

6. Grandma was insistent that we ______ her soon.

A. went and visited

B. go and visit

C. went visiting

D. go and visiting

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7. We ______ last night, but we went to the cinema instead.

A. must have studied

B. might study

C. should have studied

D. would study

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8. Some people hope to be more successful while ______ simply want to feel more comfortable.

A. the others

B. others

C. the other

D. another

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9. Hardly ______ when the door suddenly closed.

A. they had arrived

B. they arrived

C. did they arrive

D. had they arrived

10.

10. ______ I accept that he is not perfect, I do actually like the person.

A. Since

B. While

C. Before

D. Unless

11.

11. She helped the old man ______ the car.

A. into

B. on

C. in

D. to

12.

12. --Do you think it will snow tomorrow?

-- ______.

A. Yes, I think it

B. I'm afraid so

C. I don't believe

D. I don't hope so

13.

13. Come earlier next time; ______ you'll be punished.

A. unless

B. until

C. otherwise

D. meanwhile

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14. It is much easier to make a plan than it out.

A. carrying

B. carry

C. to carry

D. carried

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15. The experiment ______ the discovery of a cure for cancer.

A. happened to

B. led up

C. resulted in

D. set up

16.

16. ______ I like about her is her diligence.

A. That

B. How

C. What

D. Which

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17. It is not ______, to discuss the question again and again.

A. worth

B. worthy

C. worth-while

D. worth while

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18.______ learning astronomy at an early age.

A. set about

B. set out

C. set off

D. set up

19.

19. That young boy was knocked ______ by a passing car.

A. on

B. at

C. in

D. down

20.

20. Till now the problem is far from ______.

A. being solved

B. solving

C. being solving

D. solved

三、完形填空(本题共21-30小题，每题2分，满分20分。)

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Ⅲ. Cloze (20 points)

Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.

Vitamins are organic compounds necessary in small amounts in the diet for the normal growth and maintenance of life of animals, including man.

They do not provide energy, 21 do they construct or build any part of the body. They are needed for 22 foods into energy and body maintenance. There are thirteen or more of them, and if 23 is missing a deficiency disease becomes 24 .

Vitamins are, similar because they are made of the same elements--usually carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and 25 nitrogen. They are different 26 their elements are arranged differently, and each vitamin 27 one or more specific functions in the body.

28 enough vitamins is essential to life, although the body has no nutritional use for 29 vitamins. Many people, 30 , believe in being on the "safe side" and thus take extra vitamins. However, a well-balanced diet will usually meet all the body's vitamin needs.

21. A. either

B. so

C. nor

D. never

22.

22. A. shifting

B. transferring

C. altering

D. transforming

23.

23. A. any

B. some

C. anything

D. something

24.

24. A. serious

B. apparent

C. severe

D. fatal

25.

25. A. mostly

B. partially

C. sometimes

D. rarely

26.

26. A. in that

B. so that

C. such that

D. except that

27.

27. A. undertakes

B. holds

C. plays

D. performs

28.28. A. Supplying

B. Getting

C. Providing

D. furnishing

29.

29. A. exceptional

B. exceeding

C. excess

D. external

30.

30. A. nevertheless

B. therefore

C. moreover

D. meanwhile

四、阅读理解(本题共31-55小题，每题2分，满分50分。)

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Ⅳ. Reading Comprehension (75 points)

Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and blackening the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.

Passage One

In the 1940s, urban Americans began a mass move to the suburbs in search of fresh air, elbow room and privacy. Suburbs began to sprawl out across the countryside, since most of those making the move were middleclass, they took with them the tax money the cities needed to maintain the neighborhood, in which they had lived. The people left in the cities were often those who were too old or too poor to move. Thus many cities began to fall into disrepair. Crime began to soar, and public transportation was neglected. (In the past sixty years,is the only city in theto have completed a new mass transit system.) Meanwhile, housing construction costs continued to rise higher and higher. Middle-class housing was allowed to decay, and little new housing was constructed.

Eventually, many downtown areas existed for business only. During the day they would be filled with people working in the offices and at night they would be deserted. Given these circumstances, some business executives began asking, "Why bother with going downtown at all? Why not move the offices to the suburbs go that we can live and work in the same area?" Gradually some of the larger companies began to move out of the cities, with the result that urban centers declined even further and the suburbs expanded still more. This movement of business to the suburbs is not confined to the. Businesses have also been moving to the suburbs in,, in,, and inas well.

31. What did the city lose when those people moved out to the suburbs?

A. Houses

B. Cars.

C. Jobs.

D. Tax money.

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32. What are not the resulting effects on cities when those people moved out?

A. There were more crimes.

B. Cities were in a bad condition.

C. Only one mass transit system was completed.

D. Some small companies move in while larger ones moved out.

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33. According to the passage, the suburbs ______.

A. were deserted at night

B. became larger and larger

C. had a high construction cost

D. had some declined business center

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34. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Some companies in themoved to,and.

B. Fresh air, spacious room and being away from others attract people to move to the suburbs.

C. People wouldn't pay tax when they moved out of cities.

D. The neighborhood should be maintained by old and poor people.

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35. The best title for this passage is ______.

A. Urban Renewal

B. Suburban Sprawl

C. Effects of the Move to the Suburbs

D. Development of the Suburbs

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Passage Two

The letter you write is your personal representative. It takes your place when circumstances make it impossible for you to be there in person. It goes to the hospital to cheer a sick friend. It goes to your hostess to thank her for entertaining you. It conveys your best wishes, congratulations, condolences--when you are not able to do so in person.

A friendly letter is like a visit on paper. If you "hate to write letters", it's simply because you have not yet discovered the fun it can be to write and receive letters that are good talk on paper. Many people neglect to answer letters from relatives and friends. To a letter unanswered is like saying, "I don't think you are worth the time and effort it takes to write a letter."

36. According to the passage, when you can't come to a certain place in person, you can ______.

A. send somebody else instead

B. make a telephone call

C. send a telegraph

D. write a letter

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37. Letter can express your ______.

A. congratulations

B. condolences

C. best wishes

D. all of the above

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38. If you send your friend a letter, it seems that he ______.

A. will be greatly worried

B. will be angry about it

C. will award you

D. will see you on paper

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39. In line with the passage, if you don't like to write a letter, it's simply because ______.

A. you are lazy enough

B. you are busy enough

C. you haven't found the advantages of letters

D. you can't afford too many letters

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40. If you don't answer your friends' letters, it seems to say that ______.

A. your friends is too busy to read a letter

B. your friend hates to receive a letter

C. your friend is not worthy of your letter

D. your friend should not have written you a letter

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Passage Three

No one knows exactly how many disabled (残废的) people there are in the world, but estimates suggest the figure is over 450 million. The number of disabled people inalone is probably more than double the total population of.

In the, about one in ten people have some disability. Disability is not just something that happens to other people. As we get older, many of us will become less mobile (可动的), hard of hearing or have failing eyesight.

Disablement can take many forms and occur at any time of life. Some people are born with disabilities. Many others become disabled as they get older. There are many progressive disabling diseases. The longer time goes on, the worse they become. Some people are disabled in accidents. Many others may have a period of disability in the form. of a mental illness. All are affected by people's attitude towards them.

Disabled people face many physical barriers. Next time you go shopping or to work or visit friends, imagine how you would manage if you could not get up steps, or on to buses and trains. How would you cope if you could not see where you were going or could not hear the traffic? But there are other barriers: prejudice can be even harder to break down and ignorance inevitably represents by far the greatest barrier of all. It is almost impossible for the able-bodied to fully appreciate what the severely disabled go through, so it is important to draw attention to these barriers and show that it is the individual person and their ability, not their disability, which counts.

41. The first paragraph points out that ______.

A. it is possible to get an exact figure of the world's disabled people

B. there are many disabled people in the world

C. the number of disabled people inis the greatest

D.has not much more disabled people than

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42. The key word in Paragraph 4 is ______.

A. barriers

B. ignorance

C. disability

D. prejudice

43.

43. The last word of the passage "counts" most probably means ______.

A. is most important

B. is included

C. is considered

D. is numbered

44.

44. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A. There are about 10 percent disabled persons in the.

B. The whole society should pay attention to the barriers faced by the disabled people.

C. Even the able-bodied may lose some of their body functions when they get older.

D. There still exists prejudice against the disabled which results mainly from ignorance.

45.

45. It can be concluded from the passage that ______.

A. we should try our best to prevent disablement

B. we must take a proper attitude towards the disabled

C. the able-bodied people will never fully understand the disabled

D. both physical and mental barriers are hard to break down

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Passage Four

More than 6,000 children were expelled (开除) from US school last year for bringing guns and bombs to school, the US Department of Education said on May 8.

The department gave a report to the expulsions (开除) as saying handguns accounted for 58 percent of the 6,093 expulsions in 1996 and 1997, against 7 percent for rifles (步枪) or shotguns and 35 percent for other types of firearms.

"The report is a clear sign that out nation's public schools are cracking down (严惩) on students who bring guns to school," Education Secretary Richard Riley said in a statement. "We need to be tough-minded about keeping guns out of our schools and do everything to keep our children safe."

In March 1997, an 11 years old boy and 13 years old boy using handguns and rifles shot dead four children and a teacher at a school in. In October, two were killed and seven wounded in a shooting at aschool. Two months later, a 14 years old boy killed three high school students and wounded five in.

Most of the expulsions, 56 percent, were from high school, which have students from about age 13.34 percent were from junior high schools and 9 percent were from elementary schools, the report said.

46. From the first paragraph we can infer that in theschools ______.

A. students enjoy shooting

B. students are eager to be solider

C. safety is a problem

D. students can make guns

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47. The report from the US Department of Education shows that ______.

A. the number of the expulsions is not large

B. the number of the expulsion is wrong

C. there are soldiers hiding among the students

D. guns are out of control in US schools

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48. The main idea of Paragraph Four shows us ______.

A. some examples of shoot in US schools

B. the American's feeling

C. some famous schools

D. that some teachers were killed by students

49.

49. How many students were shot dead inUS schools?

A. 10

B.

. 12

D. 22

50.

50. From this passage we know that ______.

A. every American cannot have guns

B. only soldiers and police can have guns

C. every American citizen can own guns

D. teachers have no money to buy guns

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Passage Five

Some people hate everything that is modern. They cannot imagine how anyone can really like modern music; they find it hard to accept the new fashions in clothing; they think that all modern painting is ugly; and they seldom have a good word for the new buildings that are being built everywhere in the world. Such people look for perfection in everything, and they take their standards of perfection from the past. They are usually impatient with anyone who is brave enough to experiment with new or to express himself or the age in materials original ways. It is, of course, true that many artists do not succeed in their work and instead produce works that can only be considered as failures. If the work of art is a painting, the artist's failure concerns himself alone, but if it is a building, his failure concerns others too, because it may damage the beauty of the whole place. This does sometimes happen, but it is completely untrue to say, as some people do, that modern architecture is nothing.

We can't judge every modern building by the standards of the ancient time, even though we admire the ancient buildings. Technologically, the modern buildings are more advanced. The modern architect knows he should learn from the ancient works, but with his greater resources of knowledge and materials, he will never be content to imitate the past. He is too proud to do that.

51. Some people hate everything that is modern because ______.

A. they are aged

B. they find it hard to accept modern things

C. they take their standards of perfection from the Greek

D. they look at things by the standards of the past

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52. The writer of the passage thinks that ______.

A. it is true to say artists fail in their work

B. it is untrue to say artists fail in their work

C. it is true to say some artists fail in their work

D. it is true to say only painters fail in their work

53.

53. The writer thinks the failure of a building ______.

A. means nothing

B. concerns others

C. concerns only the artist

D. concerns all the people in the world

54.

54. The writer thinks that we can't judge ______.

A. buildings by the ancient standards

B. all the buildings by the ancient standards

C. all the modern buildings by the ancient standards

D. modern buildings

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55. "Technologically, the modern buildings are more advanced." This sentence means ______.

A. the ancient architects had no technology

B. the modern architects use more advanced technology

C. the modern buildings are advanced because they are completely different from the ancient buildings

D. the modern buildings are more beautiful

五、补全对话(本题共56-60小题，每题2分，满分10分。)

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Ⅴ. Daily Conversation (10 points)

Direction: Pick out the appropriate expression from the eight choices and complete the following dialogue by blackening the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.

A. That's very kind of you.

B. What can I do for you?

C. Please take it easy.

D. Yes, but why?

E. Could I have your name.

F. Please give my best regards to your family.

G. But he panned to.

H. How about going to the movie?

56. Tony. Is there anything I can do for you?

Tom: ______, but I can manage it myself.

57.

57. Receptionist: ______, please?

Guest: Bill Grant.

58.

58. Student A. Good morning. Would-you please do me a favor?

Student B: Certainly. ______?

59.

59. Guest: I must be off now. I have an appointment at six.

Host: Well, in that case I won't keep you then. ______.

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60. Wife. Do you have any idea for the weekend?

Husband: ______?

六、书面表达(50分)

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Ⅵ. Writing (25 points)

Directions: For this part, you are supposed to write a composition Health in 100-120 words based on the following topic sentences. Remember to write it clearly.

(1) Health is the foundation of one's future success.

(2) How can you have good health?

(3) In a word, nothing is more valuable than health.